Graduate Program

The world-class research and teaching in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah provides you with the ideal environment to pursue an impactful and rewarding doctoral degree. Here, your research will be enabled by robust external funding, world-class facilities, and an interdisciplinary and collegial environment where our students' creativity thrives.

Currently, students and faculty in our Ph.D. program are tackling problems ranging from the design of new medicines, to addressing current and future water and energy needs, to devising novel quantitative approaches to characterize matter at the molecular scale. These complex and challenging problems are being met by a talented, motivated, and diverse group of scientists – we encourage you to join us!